There are no bad students..... Only bad teachers........

This discussion topic really hits home with me. We have 5 children all of them gifted in their own way, by this I mean some are great at sports, one is naturally gifted in the art of sitting in a class room and receiving an A without much effort. Children all learn differently as do adults for some of us it may take weeks even months to totally understand what is put in front of us where as the person sitting next to us my obtain it in a matter of hours. This is life, however the teacher makes the difference this where in lies the blame. For anyone to learn effectively they need a teacher with patients, understanding, and most importantly willingness to give more to those who need it. I started out saying that this topic hits home with me, the reason for his is because my son had a teacher who refused to give him anything better than a C on any work he did. She even went as far as to tell me during a conference that she knows he (my son) will never be more than an average student. How dare she my son was only in 4th grade at the time. She also said that it would be best if he planned on working with his hands. What the h*** is that suppose to mean, do you really think that because someone is hard worker, and works at a job that needs physical as well as mental abilities that they are nothing more than average. Well, to make a long story short my son moved on to receive A's the following year and the year after that. We will still need to wait and see what this year brings but the damage she did to his self esteem took quite awhile to overcome. So, yes in many many many situations the teacher is ultimately to blame.

Sometimes it's the teacher. Sometimes it's the student. Sometimes it is both.

Like all broad generalizations, this is not strictly true. There are bad students and good students. The purpose of this broad generalization is to keep bad teachers from blaming their students for the teacher's own bad performance.

No, it's not right to say that. Come on, teachers are not perfect individuals. They have limitations like anyone else. Teachers deal with more than one students who have different learning styles and it would be impossible to give their undivided attention to every single student's need. If you had the same students year after year then I guess it would be easier to make them learn effectively as you would be able to know each learning styles. Students, on the other hand

It's not that simple.

I was told once that there is no such thing as a bad kid, only kids who happen to do bad things. There are certainly bad teachers but I would argue that there are also bad kids or students. If there are good students then there can be bad ones. perhaps it was their upbringing, society, or whatever the case that may have caused it but there are certainly bad students as well as bad teachers.